About Podiant

Podiant is a cloud-hosted podcasting platform built with
a focus on usability, flexibility and power. Founded by a
seasoned web developer and run by a small team of
committed podcasters, Podiant was built by podcasters, for
podcasters, but with humans in mind.

Podiant was founded by podcaster and web developer Mark Steadman.
It was created out of a need for a simple-to-use but powerful
tool that would allow him to uplaod podcasts quickly and easily.

It was built on the MVP (minimum viable product) model, so only
the most necessary features existed in its first version. As the
platform expanded, Podiant has offered features that rival even
the larger, more established offerings, but has remained small
and nimble.

Podiant is a passion project. That doesn’t mean it’s
a hobby, but rather a small operation with a dedicated focus. As
such, its mission from the outset was to make podcasting accessible
to as many people as possible.

While Podiant originally offered its services for free and added
paid extras, in October 2017, Mark introduced a simpler pricing
structure and a new Community application procedure, which means
that only those podcasts that serve a community purpose can use
the service for free.

Free hosting for eligible podcasts is still a huge part of the
Podiant ethos, and you can find out more about it on our
Community page.

Not exactly. We had a number of pricing tiers but previously offered
an unlimited free tier, supported via Patreon. We’ve since
added qualification criteria to this tier. You can find out more
about it on our Community page.

We’d be sad to see you go, but we won’t try and
lock you in. There’s an option in the Settings page of
your podcast’s dashboard that will let you cancel your
subscription, and optionally redirect your RSS feed to another
provider. We’ll keep that redirect open for 30 days, and
most podcast providers will let you import your show from the
RSS feed we provide.